FBI not obligated to share rules for spying on journalists, judge rules

‘A federal judge has ruled that not only is it okay for the FBI to spy on journalists, but that it can withhold information about its rules for snooping on reporters without a warrant.
The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) sued the Department of Justice in July 2015, two years after the Associated Press reported that the DOJ had seized two months’ worth of phone records of at least seven journalists ‒ and possibly more than 100 ‒ in an attempt to discover the source of a leak about a CIA operation that foiled a terror plot in Yemen.
As part of its probe, the DOJ investigated James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, as a possible “co-conspirator” in the leak of classified material. After AP reported that the DOJ secretly pursued a warrant to monitor the communications of the news wire’s staff, AP President Gary Pruitt claimed that anonymous sources retreated into silence, afraid that they would become a target of a government leak investigation.’
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